Mailboxes Are Soon To Be Museum Pieces

Street corner mailboxes appear to be headed the way of pay phones.  Relics for museums.  The other day I was asking Facebook friends how many of these they any longer see in their hometowns.  The answer is, not many!

One woman, a graduate of my old high school and working for a newspaper back east, also had a complaint.  The drive up boxes often are on the passenger side of your car.  This can be a little tricky if you don’t have a passenger and Inspector Gadget arms.  Who had that great idea?

At the Fillmore Street Post Office in Twin Falls the boxes are on the driver side but I’ve got a beef about the design.  The concrete curb snakes in such a way it’s difficult to pull up flush to a box.  And letters sometimes balance on the mouth of the box and if the wind is blowing…

Newspaper boxes are also a diminishing sight.  There will always be people reading words printed on paper but at some point the online profit margin is greater than maintaining printing plants, boxes and a delivery system.  Shareholders will make some decisions and the daily printed paper will also be relegated to history.